Battling Tops Game!

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Back in the late 60’s when I was a kid my favorite game to play with was Battling Tops! My neighbor friends would come over and we would spend hours playing with this game. I even played with this by myself and would pull two tops at the same time. I think this game came out in 1968, so it is nearly 50 years old and I thought it was time to see if printing would be a way for the kids of today to play with this. You can find them still on E-bay, most are not complete. I don’t know how much longer the vintage ones will be around, but I hope my printed design will stay. My first concern was the size of this game. I tried to design it so someone with a smaller print bed, like my Wanhao D4S printer could make the game. The my game board came out about 12-1/2” square. The original game was 13-1/2 square (I just got the one I ordered from E-Bay). The battling arena is 12” diameter on the original game and my printed version is 11-1/4” dia. I'm including the complete model so you can enlarge it and slice it as you see fit. A video of how I built this is here. https://youtu.be/4Rmt1inoQJo How I Designed This This was designed in ZW3D Standard modeling software. I designed the size of this to fit on the glass print bed of my Wanhao D4S printer. The Largest part just fitting on the Wanhao glass plate Custom Section My print settings for this: There are only 7 models that make up this job. 1) The pull ring (4 needed) .3mm layer 100% in-fill ABS 2) Stage Corner (4 needed) .3mm layer 15% in-fill PLA (4 top/bottom & 4 shells) 3) Arena Corner (4 needed) .2mm layer 15% in-fill PLA (4 top/bottom & 4 shells) 4) Tops (3 parts) (4 needed) .2mm layer 100% in-fill PLA or ABS 5) Score Pins (4 needed) .2mm layer 100% in-fill PLA or ABS Tools: 5 min epoxy, 1/16 x 1” steel pins, drill & bit, Straight edge, Wax paper, Glass or flat surface I printed right on a heated glass surface sprayed with AquaNet Extra Super Hold Hair spray (Purple can) No Rafts but supports will be needed for the Stage Corners. I use Simplify 3D slicing software. See below. Simplify 3D showing the support needed